Indian · Halal · South Norwood
Good food.
Great flavour.
Sitar
South Norwood, SE25 4PF
Open daily 5:00–10:30 PM
Sitar — local takeaway in South Norwood
Sitar is a halal Indian takeaway at 4 Portland Road in South Norwood, London SE25 4PF. Its 168-dish menu, with prices taken from the restaurant’s own ordering website, runs from balti, bhuna, korma, jalfrezi, pathia, madras and vindaloo mains through tandoori grills, birany, fish curries and a wide list of breads, rice and vegetable sides.
Sitar’s 168 saved dishes, with prices, are taken from the restaurant’s own ordering website. Dishes on the saved menu include Lime Pickle, Fish Birany, Tandoori Chicken (Starter).
Balti, bhuna and birany
Balti comes nine ways — chicken, chicken jalfrezi, chicken massala, kufta, lamb and paneer at £9.95, prawn at £9.95, king prawn at £12.95 and vegetable at £8.95 — and bhuna is the other slow-cooked sauce to build a meal around, with chicken at £7.50, lamb and prawn at £7.95, chicken tikka at £8.95 and king prawn at £12.95. The birany list runs to nine choices, from vegetable birany at £7.95 through chicken at £8.95 to the Sitar Special birany at £10.95 and king prawn birany at £12.95.
Tandoori grills, tikka and chef’s specials
Tikka mains come off the tandoor with chicken at £7.50, garlic chicken and chilli chicken at £8.95, lamb at £9.95, salmon at £11.95 and king prawn at £13.95, and tandoori chicken is available as a half bird at £6.95 or a full one at £11.95. The chef’s specials cover Chicken/Lamb Ceylon at £8.95 and Murgi Massala at £9.50, while the starter list runs from lamb or vegetable samosa at £3.85 and sheek kebab or chicken pakura at £4.50 to salmon tikka at £6.95.
Breads, rice and vegetable sides
Breads are the widest part of the menu: eight kinds of nan, from plain at £2.50 and garlic, keema, peshwari or stuffed at £3.20 to cheese, chicken tikka and spicy cheese at £3.50, with parathas at £2.95–£3.50 and chapati at £1.50. Rice is served nine ways — plain at £2.60, pilau at £2.95 and garlic, lemon, coconut, peas, onion-fried, chilli and special fried at £3.45. Vegetarian orders are well covered by the eight bhaji at £3.95 (onion, bhindi, brinjal, cauliflower, chana, mushroom, sag aloo and sag bhaji), mixed vegetable curry and mixed dry vegetable at £3.95, and five curry sauces at £2.95–£3.50, with papadams, mango chutney, mint sauce and lime pickle at £0.75 and raitha at £2.50 to finish.
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